Scott Frost’s payday as Nebraska’s head football coach begins with his $35 million, seven-year contract, but his compensation certainly doesn’t end there.

He also can take in performance incentives valued at up to $950,000 for a season that ends with winning the national championship. Frost also receives a 20-hour allotment for private planes annually, including trips with his immediate family, and there’s income to be derived from camps and clinics.

There are other expense issues for the university, including the $3 million buyout the university paid to the University of Central Florida to hire Frost, setting in motion the Nebraska native’s return to his alma mater where he quarterbacked the Cornhuskers’ last national championship team.

The university also is covering moving and relocation expenses for the Frost family from Orlando to Lincoln, which is standard procedure for such high-level positions.

And as previously reported, Frost had a $5 million pool to hire his 10 assistant coaches plus his head strength and conditioning coach.

Those details, and much more, are included in the 18-page final contract that Frost, Athletic Director Bill Moos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green and university President Hank Bounds officially signed off on over the past two weeks.

The contract, made public by the athletic department on Wednesday, is much more detailed than the preliminary agreement reached by Frost and the university around the time of his hiring at the end of the 2017 football season.

Nebraska’s athletic department has not publicly commented on the status of Frost’s contract negotiations, including why the contract was still not completed, since the signing of the preliminary agreement. Athletic department officials were not available for comment late Wednesday.

While Frost’s $5 million a year guaranteed, base salary contract through 2024 makes him the highest paid public official in Nebraska and is about twice as much as his predecessor Mike Riley made, the contract still pales in comparison to the deals for Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, Alabama’s Nick Saban, and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher.

Those three are the highest paid coaches in college football, and their bonuses and perk packages, broadly speaking, are more lucrative than what Frost signed off on. But Frost’s deal is certainly an upgrade over Riley’s contract, putting the new head coach squarely in the upper tier of college football’s most highly compensated head coaches.

Here’s an audit of Frost’s contract:

Frost will be paid one, with the emphasis on one, of the following amounts, for the highest achievement reached, the contract states.

*Wins or ties for the west division title of the Big Ten Conference, without an invitation to or appearance in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game: $ 100.000.

* Appears in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game: $200,000.

*Wins the Big Ten Conference Championship Game: $300,000.

There’s more. If Frost directs the team to the following post regular season bowl games, he shall be paid one of the following amounts, for the highest achievement reached.

*Appears in any bowl game which is not a contest included as part of the College Football Playoff: $150,000.

*Appears in any College Football Playoff Bowl Game: $250,000.

*Appears in College Football Playoff Semi-Final Game: $300,000.

*Appears in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game: $350,000.

*Wins the College Football Playoff National Championship Game: $650,000.

In other words, if Frost not only wins the Big Ten title, but brings home the hardware in the national championship, his payday will amount to $950,000.

That package is similar to Riley’s final contract bonus package. Alabama’s Saban earns more just for winning the national title -- $700,000, according to an ESPN report.

Use of private aircraft is a common perk among Power 5 schools, and Frost is now part of the club.

His Nebraska contract calls for up to 20 hours of “private, non-commercial flight time” for his personal use and his “immediate family.”

So if Frost and his family, for example, want to visit his in-laws in Arizona, his contract covers the travel. Same with Frost needing a plane for a celebrity golf tournament in his old hometown of Orlando, on the West Coast, or even a pitch and putt at the Sandhills Golf Club in Mullen.

The contract did not specify a dollar value to the 20 hours of flight time, but private jet hourly fees generally start at $1,500 and up. The price could rise to $35,000 or so an hour depending on the type of aircraft, fuel costs, and destinations. But if the costs were $15,000 per flight hour, the tab would amount to $300,000 in value.

Keep in mind, as the contract points out, that this fringe benefit will be reported as taxable income to Frost at is fair market value, subject to withholding of state and federal taxes.

By contrast, Kansas State’s Bill Snyder gets an allotment of 10 hours annually for private planes, according to the 2017 ESPN research, while Urban Meyer at Ohio State gets 50 hours annually.

Other coaches may not have private jet time at their disposal, but they have perks built into their contract for first-class travel and other mileage benefits.

Coach Frost will be reimbursed for “reasonable relocation expenses in connection with moving his family to Lincoln. A dollar amount was not specified.

As for the use of cars and apparel allowances with Adidas, there were no specific provisions or dollar values.

That said, don’t expect to see Frost tooling around Lincoln in an Oldsmobile Cutlass. Standard contract language for head coaches typically includes the use of two cars per year for every Power 5 coach. However, former Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst eliminated the long-time NU Wheel Club during his time, which meant coaches no longer received free vehicles from dealerships across the state. Riley still drove his Toyota Prius with Oregon license plates during his three years in Lincoln.

Frost is also entitled to standard health care benefits packages afforded to university employees.

While the contract allows Frost to hold athletic schools, camps and clinics that utilize university facilities, he is required to pay the university usage fees. The same applies for assistants conducting events on university property.

Frost is also required to file a personal financial statement with Moos that discloses all income from sources “both within and outside” the university, including income from camps, club memberships, complimentary tickets, income from television and radio programs, and income from personal service contracts with apparel, athletic shoes, and equipment manufacturers and suppliers.

If Frost leaves Nebraska for another college or professional job he’d owe the university $2.5 million per year for the remainder of his contract, prorated for partial years, the contract states.

Should Nebraska fire Frost without cause, the school would owe him $5 million per year for the remainder of the contract prior to and through Dec. 31, 2022, and $2.5 million after that date, mitigated by other employment.

Steve Rosen covers the business of sports for HuskerOnline.com. Questions, comments, story ideas? Reach Steve at sbrosen1030@gmail.com.